With the release of New Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS we thought we'd show you some of the many reasons we LOVE the original SMB 2 on the NES. We also have 15 Reasons We HATE it as well...

Take a look at each by going through the photo gallery below.

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Thanks for the blog Craig. This brought up so many memories of the game for me. I was never more hyped or excited to play a game than I was for this game. I remember back when my friend had it & brought it over, after he went home all I could think about was playing the game non-stop. I finally got my own copy in April 1989 & went nuts with it. I played through SMB1 so much that the change in gameplay was so refreshing. It's definitely my #1 Mario game of all time.

Straight from mariowiki.com: "Other journalists were more critical, with gaming site ScrewAttack calling it the 9th worst Mario game of all time, due to the fact that it was too much of a departure from its predecessor."

you know the weird part? is that around my country, they ditch mario 2 and just give us The Lost Level, yeah... We were also tearing our heads finding out that this is Mario 2, and also how hard The Lost Level is.

If you played the first SMB back in the day, then when this came out it would've blown your mind graphically, the music, and design. This one and Super Mario 64 had the largest impact on me because of the seemly gigantic change in style.